Enid Blyton (1897-1968) is the world's best-selling children's author and has sold 600 million books internationally. Best known for her exceptional young readers' novels where recurring groups of children seek mystery and adventure, she presents a realistic world of exciting events, often with little or no adult supervision. With children taking centre stage, generation after generation have fallen for her timeless appeal, and she was voted the nation's most loved writer at the 2008 Costa Book Awards.